Grand Prix of Baltimore

Speeding race car tires may have blackened Baltimore's streets for the last time, as Grand Prix of Baltimore organizers announced Friday that calendar conflicts have doomed the event for the next two years. Event organizer Race On LLC's top official called any reprise in later years "an uphill battle into the wind." Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that "there are no conversations going on about" a 2016 Grand Prix. "Everyone wanted the race to continue," said JP Grant, whose Race On LLC revived the event in 2012 after its original organizers became mired in financial difficulties. "The sheer number of calendar obligations that had to be...

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Speeding race car tires may have blackened Baltimore's streets for the last time, as Grand Prix of Baltimore organizers announced Friday that calendar conflicts have doomed the event for the next two years.
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Baltimore's party is over – and it was a grand one. A Grand Prix one, to be exact. But now it is time to put the carpet and the furniture back where they belong.
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Both city and race officials count the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix as a success, but when it comes to tallying the number of people who attended the three-day event, there was not as much agreement.
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Those planning ahead to the summer of 2012 can likely figure on Indy race cars returning to the streets of Baltimore for Labor Day weekend.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was very busy this weekend on Twitter sending out self-serving, tune-in messages of congratulations on how good the City of Baltimore looked in TV coverage of the Grand Prix.
Here's one from about 1:40 p.m. Sunday:...

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If there was one complaint about the Baltimore Grand Prix from IndyCar drivers Sunday, it was that the course could have used one more area where it was feasible to pass. The course was set up so that drivers had to be patient, and most of them were....

When he was growing up in Towson, JF Thormann could not, in his wildest fantasies, have imagined a day when downtown Baltimore would be turned into a IndyCar racetrack.
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Willy T. Ribbs is going back into retirement.
Ribbs, who became the first African-American to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1991 and hadn't raced in an Indy car in 17 years, finished 13th out of 16 drivers in the Firestone Indy Lights event Sunday....

Esteban Guerrieri sat in his trailer Sunday afternoon, looking more than a little forlorn.
"I am not a driver anymore," the 26-year-old Argentine said. "I just retired 10 minutes ago."
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